Re: enum paralellism
On 1/17/12 10:08 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:33:46 -0500, Eric Sosman
<esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :
Is this parallelism a result of using classes from different
sources, each with its own enum to represent the same set of things?
Is is a general question hoping to collect techniques that might apply
in different circumstances. However, what triggered it is I have
three different enums:
1. online bookstores where you look things up by ISBN. I probe the
bookstore to see if they have a given book in stock by looking for
snippets in the response e.g.
<snip>
There are similar enums for DVDs stores that look up by UPC, and
Amazon stores that look up by ASIN. The other way to deal with it
would be to combine them in to one big enum with parms to keep track
of the subtype.
While an interesting approach, I would personally look into
externalizing that into a configuration file, rather than inlining it as
enums. That way you don't need to recompile when you update your settings.
In any case, see my other message about how to achieve what you're asking.
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